Christmas Store

Hello to you all,
I have to let everyone know how great the Christmas Store was this year.  We raised over $3300 for student scholarships!!!!  Thank you to all who helped out.  The Christmas Store really does help students in a two major ways, cheap Christmas presents and scholarships for their schooling.  This year there was an added bonus to the store in that we had several volunteers from around the college come and help out.  This made a huge difference.  Once again I would like to thank Roxanne for the countless hours that she puts into the store each year.  Without her, we could never run it.  I would also like to say thank you to Monica for the hundreds of donations she makes each year to the store.  If you see either of these two in the halls, please thank them for their time and efforts.  This was a huge success.  Thank you to all that made this happen.

Scott

Advisor Biology Meeting

Hello Folks,

It was a great meeting today with the advisors.  While they cannot go as far as putting in the pre-requisites for the post-secondary Biology's, strongly recommended will be added to BIO 160, 161, 162, 150, 151, 152, 155 and 157.  The advisors are now very aware of the direct building blocks that our BIO courses provide.  Thanks to all of you who put in input to this process.  It is the first step, and there will be several more. 

Scott

Leadership Meeting

Had a great leadership meeting yesterday.  Lots of good news for us as a school.  I will be working with Sandy and Marko to come up with a alternate, alternate admissions plan for the general studies program so that we are competing less for the same students.  This is huge for us.  While budgets are still tight, as a center we are tracking almost right on budget and it looks as though we will continue to do so.  There are some minor cuts that need to be made, but we will move through basically unscathed.  Good news for Kelly and Jeff as there iPad proposals were given the go ahead, I am excited to see what they can do with them.  MTH092 has been fully submitted to both academic council and PAUC and will receive approval in the next month from both committees.  And last but not least, we have moved through the college's new payment plan with little or no issues.  This is a good thing.  Not only that but many of you probably noticed a jump in your enrollments in the past couple of days.  We have been working hard with the advisors to eliminate some confusion that is surrounding our science courses.  That's all I have for now.  Enjoy your second week. 

Scott

Attendance Sheet

Hello to you all,

I had a brief email conversation with Elaine this afternoon and she finds the comments that are made on the attendance sheet to be extremely helpful.  The attendance itself is printed off when the files are audited.  Hope that answers your questions regarding attendance tracking.

Scott

Welcome

Hello to you all,
Would like to welcome all CUP staff to our Developmental Ed. Blog.  Will be posting more as I figure out how to use it.
Scott